Walkout over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Zionist rant

FRANCE today led a walkout of delegations, including Australia, to protest a fiery speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN General Assembly. Read the full story

Report from Iran:

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted and downed an unidentified shining object after sighting it over Persian Gulf waters.

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WASHINGTON: An angry, humiliated, and wounded A.Q.Khan has finally made public and official what has long been suspected: his nuclear proliferation activities that included exchanging and passing blue-prints and equipment to China, Iran, North Korea, and Libya was done at the behest of the Pakistani government and military, and he was forced to take the rap for it. ( Watch Video ) Read the full story

The mystery that surrounded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unannounced trip to Russia was created by the Israeli government in a calculation to divert attention from a secret weapons test, according to sources.

The test, held at undisclosed Israeli military base while Netanyahu was traveling, was done with top-secret authorization from the White House, the sources reported. Read the full story

Ephraim Sneh, Israel’s deputy defence minister until 2007, said a nuclear-armed Iran was an unacceptable threat to Israel. No Israeli government could put its faith in President Barack Obama’s efforts to bring Tehran to the negotiating table over its nuclear programme, he said. Read the full story

The defense apparatus in the United Arab Emirates arrested 45 suspects, most of them Palestinian and Lebanese, after the plot to blow up Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) was uncovered. Dubai Tower, currently under construction, is the tallest building in the world.

The current wave of arrests adds to the eight other suspects detained immediately after the plot was revealed one and a half months ago. The detainees were apparently sent as agents of Iran. Read the full story

‘We may have to attack Iran by Dec.’

Israel will be compelled to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if Western powers do not impose serious sanctions against Teheran by the end of 2009, former deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh said on Wednesday. Read the full story

The State Department said it would meet one-to-one with Pyongyang negotiators in an effort to persuade the reclusive Stalinist state to return to multilateral talks on dismantling its nuclear weapons programme.

Washington has also accepted a vague Iranian offer of talks on broad national security issues, even though Tehran refused to discuss its illicit atomic operations.

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LONDON [MENL] — An Italian company has been identified as having delivered weapons from North Korea to Iran. Italy’s Otim said it shipped 10 containers from North Korea headed for the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas via China. Executives said the company did not know the contents of the containers, transported by the ANL-Australia. “The containers left Dalian [in China] untouched with the same seals put on at the origin,” Otim chief executive Mario Carniglia said.

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Definitely a different look than what I had perceived it to be..

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(Video was from Last Year)

(CNN) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home Friday after a sometimes controversial nine-country tour and said he had purchased weapons from Russia.

Chavez appeared on Venezuelan news channel Globovision in Caracas, and he had a message about a purchase he made in Russia. Read the full story

Netanyahu visits Moscow in secret to obstruct Iran missile sale

Israeli prime minister faces widespread criticism after mission details leaked to press

Russia and Israel were both facing domestic embarrassment today after it emerged that the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, had taken a secret trip to Moscow to persuade the Russians not to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. Read the full story

It seems as though more and more news is surfacing over the past couple months regarding Iran and weapons proliferation claims. This would be a bombshell for America if true, though.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_re_mi_ea/eu_nuclear_agency_iran

AP NewsBreak: Iran says US nuke documents ‘forged’

VIENNA – Iran accused the U.S. on Friday of using “forged documents” and relying on subterfuge to make its case that Tehran is trying to build a nuclear weapon, according to a confidential letter obtained by The Associated Press.

The eight-page letter — written by Iran’s chief envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency in Vienna — denounces Washington’s allegations against the Islamic Republic as “fabricated, baseless and false.” The letter does not specify what documents Iran is alleging were forged.

It also lashes out at Britain and France for “ill will and political motivation” in their dealings on Iran.

Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh sent the letter to Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose 35-nation board will take a hard new look at Iran’s nuclear program next week. Read the full story

Updates regarding North Korea weapons shipment seizure.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLU614080

Australia probes N.Korea weapons for Iran seizure Read the full story

The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship illegally carrying North Korean weapons bound for Iran, diplomatic sources at the UN have said.

A diplomat told the AFP news agency that the UAE had informed UN officials responsible for implementing sanctions on Pyongyang. Read the full story

MOSCOW – Israeli President Shimon Peres said Wednesday that the Kremlin has promised to reconsider the planned delivery of powerful air defense missiles to Iran.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made the pledge during their talks Tuesday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Peres said.

“President Medvedev gave a promise he will reconsider the sales of S-300s because it affects the delicate balance which exists in the Middle East,” Peres told reporters via video link from Sochi. Read the full story

I’ll do my best to keep this story updated as news breaks.

Berkeley Grads Could be Charged with Spying in Iran

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — The government of Iran is deciding whether to charge three UC Berkeley grads with spying. That’s according to an Iranian lawmaker.The US State Department says the three under arrest were not involved in espionage.

An Iraqi security officials says they simply lost their bearings while hiking in a poorly marked area near the Iranian border. Read the full story

This has been going on for a few days now. Keep an eye on this one…

Iran questions detained Americans

Three Americans arrested after apparently straying into Iran are being questioned by police, Iranian state television has reported.

“We don’t know whether they are tourists or not. We are questioning them,” said a local security official. Read the full story